Introduction to Azure Redis Cache

Posted on March 24, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

Azure Redis Cache is one of the cache service offerings from Microsoft Azure. Based on the popular open source Redis Cache, it allows the user to have the best of both worlds- rich features and eco system of Redis plus reliable hosting and monitoring from Microsoft.

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Amazon expands Elastic Block Storage

Posted on March 24, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(1)

As we know Elastic Block Store (EBS) is the block level storage that increases the durability and persistence of data for EC2 instances. It earlier provided storage size from 1GB up to 1TB.

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Preparing for Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect Certification (AWS Architect Certification)

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(29)

AWS has launched a comprehensive AWS certification program. Lack of Certification from AWS was an issue in the AWS ecosystem, so the certification program is really exciting. I registered for the exam straight away and gave the exam today (05/08/2013).

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Shrinking An Amazon EBS Volume

Posted on January 19, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(1)

Amazon’s Elastic Block Store Volumes are easy to use and expand but notoriously hard to shrink once their size has grown. Here are the steps for Shrinking any mounted EBS volume on EC2 Instances.

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Preparing for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional Level Certification Exam

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Himanshu Sachdeva | Comments(2)

AWS recently announced their second Professional level certification exam that is little different from it’s previous professional level exam as the new one merges two certification tracks into one. Their Developer & SysOps Administrator exam at associate level converge into a single exam at professional level that is AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification exam.

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Steps to convert UBUNTU-BASED PV instances to HVM

Posted on December 5, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(8)

My previous blog will help you convert Rhel-based PV instances to HVM.

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Auto Attach Elastic IP to EC2 Classic Instance For Autoscaling

Posted on November 14, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(3)

AWS has made it really simple to attach an Elastic IP to an EC2 instance. It is 4 Simple Steps using AWS console.

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What’s new in OpenStack Juno?

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Sangram Rath | Comments(0)

OpenStack Juno is now generally available. This is the 10th release of the most popular and hot Private Cloud offering out there. Here is a sneak peak into what’s in store in Juno.

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Steps to convert RHEL-BASED PV instances to HVM

Posted on November 5, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(1)

My previous blog will give you an idea as to why HVM instances in AWS are better than PV instances and why people prefer using HVM instances over PV instances. Moreover, the HVM instances offered by Amazon are cheaper than the PV ones. For example, PV m1.medium costs $0.087 per Hour whereas, HVM m3.medium costs $0.070 per Hour.

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Virtualization in Amazon Web Services

Posted on October 16, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(1)

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances are the central part of Amazon.com’s cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS). An instance type determines the hardware of the host computer used. Each instance type offers different compute and memory capabilities.

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